Annie Kapur
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English Lecturer
🎓Literature & Writing (B.A)
🎓Film & Writing (M.A)
🎓Secondary English Education (PgDipEd) (QTS)
📍Birmingham, UK
Stories (1968/0)
Movie Review: "Argylle" (2024)
As you know, I am not the biggest fan of comedy movies. More than often, they do not actually resonate with being funny, but instead come across as what Hollywood thinks is funny to ‘normal people’. There have been many occasions where Hollywood has thought something was really funny and the rest of the world sat back and unanimously stated it was not funny at all. This is not really showing Hollywood as being ‘out of touch’ but rather ‘out of time’. People have moved on from trashy comedy films to liking intelligible cinema and quality comedy (enter *Barbenheimer*).
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "A Treasury of British Folklore" by Dee Dee Chainey
If you did not think I was going to eventually read an anthology of folklore this year then you really don't know me at all. Folklore is one of the most interesting genres of literature I have ever encountered because it is basically stories, customs and traditions that have weird narratives attached to them that get passed down over generations to create strange things we do and say without fully paying attention to its significance. From Halloween to the Mari Lwyd to Pancake Day to St Stephen's Day being called 'Boxing Day'. Folklore explains what happened here and why. It gives us stories about how we might understand them and what we might gain about the understanding of our country and ourselves through that process. There are hundreds of thousands of folklore all over the world, but for now I am reading about my home country of Britain. Note: I am actually interested in all folklore, I generally do not care which country of culture it's from. I like all of it.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
3 Great Novels About Human Limits...
We have all heard about those books that keep getting published by ex-Navy Seals etc. that for some reason, a lot of people read but it does not look like a lot of people implement into their lives. However, when it comes to fiction it is a bit different. It has nothing to do with being pushed physically to places normal humans cannot go, but it is more about the things that our minds can make us do. It is what happens when our mind is our only limitation and what happens when we are forced to make deadly choices. It is a brilliant theme that underlines a lot of literature and there is by no means a best-fit for anything. These are probably not the absolute best ones you could read, but they are three great novels on the topic. So, should you wish to do so, read three great novels about human limits...
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Sam: A Horror Novel" by Iain Rob Wright
“May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Hide" by Kiersten White
After reading Mister Magic, I became really interested in the works of Kiersten White and so, I read her other novel entitled Hide. I am going to say this before anything else, Hide was written before Mister Magic and so I did not expect it to be as good as the latter novel. However, it was actually really quite interesting. The storyline was pretty original but for me, there were too many characters. Apart from Mack, I did not feel like I could remember many of the characters because there were a) so many of them and b) some of them had very similar personalities. So there are some clear advantages and disadvantages of this story. Let's have a look at what it is actually about.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Wager" by David Grann
Now, I’m going to be perfectly honest with you, I had already heard about the ship known as ‘The Wager’ before hearing about the film being made or the book by David Grann. However, I was not clear on many of the details. It was like one of those useless pieces of trivia you have stored in your skull that only comes out if someone asks a very specific question about it. To date: nobody has. Apart from this, I came across this book in my Amazon Recommendations. Having read ‘The Killers of the Flower Moon’ when the book came out and movie was first rumoured, I thought I would give this one the same shot. Let’s take a look at what makes this book a really good read and some things that kind of make it a bit boring for a reader who wishes to learn whilst being entertained.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
- Top Story - February 2024
3 Literary Conspiracy TheoriesTop Story - February 2024
A conspiracy theory is defined as: an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable. (Wikipedia)
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Introduction From: The New York Times One of the greatest movies ever made without a shadow of a doubt is 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick. In my humble opinion, this is probably Kubrick's greatest movie and along with the iconic theme music and some incredible shots, this movie gets its own place on the list of greatest films. Many lists of the past and present feature this film as one of the best ever made and even though there's a lot of question about what is actually happening in some parts of the film, nobody can argue against the fact that this movie is an experience rather than just passive viewing.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Mister Magic" by Kiersten White
“And Val. A little girl who doesn’t understand why the world is the way it is, why everyone tries to tell her she can’t want or feel the things she does. Why her mother never sees what she needs, only hates her for asking. Why, when she reaches out a hand and demands, she’s met with pain and rejection. Here, when she reaches out and demands? Magic. And at such a small cost.”
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Bitterthorn" by Kat Dunn
“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night and crackling the insides of my windows. I had longed to be left alone, to escape the lie of my family, only to discover this was different kind of poison. Slow acting, but lethal. At first it numbed me, pleasure leaching from my days like a summer leaf draining of sap to greet the autumn. Then loneliness came, a creeping oily stain that stopped me from enjoying it at all."
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "All Hallow’s" by Christopher Golden
“How simple things had been, once upon a time. In the era when children still played with Raggedy Ann, life had been so uncomplicated. Or at least it seemed that way. Though he knew, of course, that the past had its share of pain and ugliness.”
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks